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Today’s Trump Apocalypse Watch: Trump5000 Computes Odds of Trumpdom

Trump5000 undergoes maintenance.

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Donald Trump news machine generates list of Donald Trump news to determine likelihood of Donald Trump presidency.

  • Donald Trump: Rejected by Donald Trump disliking billionaire Charles Koch.
  • Donald Trump: Uses rhetorically violent language expressed in non-serious manner to demonstrate frustration with critics including “very little guy” previously praised and not described as little by Donald Trump.
  • Donald Trump: Gross Domestic Product growth for the second quarter in current year of non-Trump presidency is at anemic rate of 1.2 percentile points.
  • Donald Trump: Trails in new measurement of race with presidential rival Hillary Clinton by five percentile points when measured by tracking company Reuters Ipsos over period of days July 25-29.
  • Donald Trump: Tied in new measurement of race with presidential rival Hillary Clinton 37-37 when measured by tracking company Reuters Ipsos over period of days July 25-29 in contest that includes lesser presidential rivals Gary Earl Johnson and Jill Ellen Stein.
  • Donald Trump: Loses most recent legal dispute with employees of Donald Trump’s The Trump Organization.
  • Donald Trump: Trails in new measurement of race with presidential rival Hillary Clinton by one percentile point in state of the American union, Missouri, which is normally a location of reliable victory for Donald Trump’s Republican Party during contests between presidential rivals of the two major political parties.
  • Donald Trump: Once wore funny Russian hat.

Donald Trump news machine computing results.

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Donald Trump news machine determines likelihood of Donald Trump presidency has not diminished or increased in past 24 hour period.

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